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On 07/30/2010 03:52 PM, Andrew Vasquez wrote:
> 
> Looking through all these emails, what's the upshot here?  Is the
> expectation, for all storage drivers to starting to implement some
> 'minimal' level of shutdown with the hardware/firmware during the
> .shutdown callback?
> 

I believe so.  It seems to be a fundamental requirement for kexec to
function.

	-hpa

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